Samsung estimated to ship 350 million smartphones globally in 2013 for a 40% market share

According to industry sources, Samsung is expected to ship half a billion handsets world-wide in 2013, with 350 million of them being smartphones. The sources claim that this information comes from internal Samsung estimates. With total global smartphone shipments for next year expected to be in the range of 860 million to 900 million, this would leave the Korean manufacturer with a better than 40% share of the world-wide smartphone market in 2013.

The success of the Samsung Galaxy S III helps prop up Samsung's mid-range line

The anonymous industry sources have pointed out how Samsung's strategy of promoting its two flagship models, the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Samsung GALAXY Note II, to prop up its line of mid-range models, has worked out for the company. Unlike Samsung's expanding list of devices, some smartphone producers have been cutting back in order not to dilute their high-end models. In that category you will find HTC, LG, Motorola and RIM.

Other manufacturers are continuing the policy of releasing a wide range of devices including Sony Mobile, ZTE, Huwai and Lenovo. The industry sources note that Sony and Lenovo have yet to roll out the kind of flagship phone that can help "extend the life cycles" of the other models in a manufacturer's lineup.

26.stychill (unregistered)

so you're hoping for something groundbreaking in the next iteration, so am i choices are what i like. Apple's design and screen qualities are always good but i just don't find anything appealing about OS 5 - 6.

For some people iStretch 5 is a ground breaking innovation why because now you can fit 5th row of apps on that screen.
And for some iOS is most advanced mobile OS, why because
1. Dead icons
2. You can't customize it
3. Maps (which you will never see again)
4. Siri (a big LOL to that)
5. You can use volume rocker button to take photos
6. Copied features from Android
7. And every update to this OS is crappier than the previous one....!!

22.stychill (unregistered)

I guess with older models, but honestly i can't see that lasting for too long since they're owned by the creators of the android OS, i still expect verizon models to take long to receive updates, but that's mostly the carriers fault.

Yea....Its neck n neck between which company will release the newest hardware spec first...Samsung or HTC. I do give Samsung props for always seeming to be one step ahead with hardware specs.

I had a G Nex...pure Android, so Samsung's influence was mostly hardware. And it didnt feel cheap or plasticky. And it fit better in my hand than my orig RAZR....and I liked my RAZR alot more than my G Nex. I picked the G Nex as one of the the best looking phones in recent years. Other one I picked was the iPhone 4.

User-replaceable battery and expandable µSD card storage.
The GS III & the Note II both have these two features that are not available on most other flagship phones.
A clue to other manufacturers perhaps; hope they take the hint.

I am trying to wait for the Samsung Galaxy 4 to come out before I buy another phone! The deal is that the phone I have right now is Samsung Galaxy S and I had to file a claim on it and the one that T MOBILE sent me had to be a refurbished phone because it is useless. I had to send the one before this one back because the sensor was messed up!! All in less than 2 wks. I trying to just deal with it but it drops calls and then at times redials numbers, pushes buttons while you are on the phone!

Now that is one seriously massive estimation.
It would give more than 85 million units per quarter, leaving everyone else (Apple included ) in the dust.
Even while I'm not THAT optimistic(up to 75M seems more likely to me ), I still believe this is a great time for buying Samsung stocks

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